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Asset Maximization:

WHAT IS “STRATEGY”? Everyone says it’s “the big picture”. And that’s just wrong.

Strategy is simply establishing a ranking of your assets (and liabilities, of course, but one should also remember that a liability can also be an asset, when viewed properly) and thereby implementing an immediate stratification of your critical and non-critical priorities.

Your first actual strategic move should necessarily be to implement a 360 degree viewpoint as soon as possible--which should include your own mission statement--along with your opponents‘ 360 degree viewpoints and their overall mission statements.

Next in consideration, as everyone knows, is tactics.

But everyone thinks tactics is “just detail”. And that is just SO wrong.

Tactics is the specific implementation of a particular priority on a particular strata.

Finally, progress is overall growth of your most important assets (YOU “almost always” get to choose which those are).

Note: The true warrior’s only real opponent is always time. All other opponents can be defeated in one way or another, but time can only be delayed with patience and accumulated knowledge.

Life, and business, really is that simple--and that’s the problem, isn’t it?

Now, what is all this based on? Largely on Batsai (So Lim Sa, China, circa 1550 AD), the oriental martial art form based on preparation for hand-to-hand combat surrounded by eight opponents.

Are you asking yourself whether strategy is ever applicable to your business environment? Would you be interested in a “hands-on” seminar--a “total immersion and comprehensive practice” experience primarily focused on proven oriental elements of strategy and tactics? Is your management team losing its grip on your company’s reins? Or are you the one actively driving and you no longer know “where” you want to go? Find our e-mail in the attached pages.

If you really think strategy is not applicable to your business, then you are better off reading “The Art of War“ (Sun Tzu’s focus on a “war” based primarily on the use of “spies“, which is fine, if that‘s your business) or perhaps even “The Book of Changes” (Fu Hsi), which would calm you and perhaps suit you best. Then you can come back here later and be a little better prepared.

Note: When stratifying your assets, at least one--the closest “in peril” strata to your personal “heart”--will immediately begin to scream at you. As one is taught in the implementation of batsai, “Don‘t move, yet. Fear is just a liquid flowing through you--if you let it flow, fear will go.” And you can begin to move as the fear actually flows through and away from you. As always, and oft stated, “Don’t forget about breathing….”

Lack of planning for contingencies that are very possible, even if they are somewhat doubtful, may be the most serious problem mankind faces. Without planning, when these contingencies occur, the resultant reaction, over time, creates a situation where the seemingly appropriate response must be to panic. Many decisions are frequently made without sufficient information, and one of the most common decisions is to eliminate possible contingencies because they seem “unlikely”, especially if they are considered “too horrible to think about right now”. So provision is not made. And when the contingency strikes, there is no series of action or plan to implement.

The tendency to at least collect information regarding the contingency (part of the planning process, after all), means that the only possible response to the lack of a series of options is to immediately feel overwhelmed--which causes panic to set. After a few such contingencies, unlikely as they have seemed, have struck, perhaps with other consequences that were also very much unforeseen, panic can become set as a de rigeur response to any unexpected turn of events. Therefore, constant collection of information, and consideration of consequences, on even doubtful contingencies is one of a group of several prime necessities.

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